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it's happening across america. it's a growing, disturbing trend. >> any cities addressing the issue doing anything about it on their own? >> oh varies state-to-state, county to county. one is allowing the homeowners used for fines to move to their homes so they could move back in or sell it. most places in america, the sharps, the couple in buffalo are paying for property violations, broken windows, vandalism, arson in their case, they weren't even inside the home. they're on the hook for property tax violations. listen to this -- if your house is ordered demolished, the homeowner could pay for that as well and that could run $60,000. >> shining a light on it. >> we hope so. >>> half past the hour now. checking the top stories this morning. u.s. marines and afghan forces are battling the taliban for a control of a strategic town in southern afghanistan trying to secure the area before next week's election. the taliban being blamed for two roadside bombings in southern afghanistan that killed 14 ci l civili civilian
it's happening across america. it's a growing, disturbing trend. >> any cities addressing the issue doing anything about it on their own? >> oh varies state-to-state, county to county. one is allowing the homeowners used for fines to move to their homes so they could move back in or sell it. most places in america, the sharps, the couple in buffalo are paying for property violations, broken windows, vandalism, arson in their case, they weren't even inside the home. they're on the...
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this man makes a living mockery of america's war on drugs. he's joaquin "el chapo" guzman, a $500 million u.s..yon his help. >> chapo is the face against military forces. >> reporter: at war because el chapo is the ultraviolent, ultralucrative cartel. legendary. el chapo guzman, like a god in mexico says ortega. nobody says him but he's everywhere. he's a myth. criminal lawyer is one of the few mexicans daring enough to speak of el chapo on camera. having met him when he was here in prison before el chapo escaped in 2001. when you talk with el chapo he see the contradiction. >> he has the robin hood, attends to the poor, the people around him. >> reporter: on the run el chapo's business has continued to flourish and investigators say orders followed. ten months ago this mutilated body and outside a mexico police station. the message hanging over his corpse signed in el chapo's name. many mexicans believe el chapo's where about unknown. this man announced everyone knows his whereabouts except the authorities, claiming he's in these mountains n
this man makes a living mockery of america's war on drugs. he's joaquin "el chapo" guzman, a $500 million u.s..yon his help. >> chapo is the face against military forces. >> reporter: at war because el chapo is the ultraviolent, ultralucrative cartel. legendary. el chapo guzman, like a god in mexico says ortega. nobody says him but he's everywhere. he's a myth. criminal lawyer is one of the few mexicans daring enough to speak of el chapo on camera. having met him when he...
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repower america. i hope our senators are listening. >>> welcome back to the most news in the morning. 26 minutes past the hour now. in the make or break debate over health care reform, the white house is trying to clarify the position on a key piece of the plan after officials seemed to suggest the president could do without it. we're talking about the so-called public insurance optionment. so what does it mean and what would happen if it was taken off of the table. cnn's tom foreman is breaking it down for us. >>> john, kiran, if you want to understand what really happened with this whole health reform debate, think of the insurance business as a big shopping mall. a bunch of private stores that sell insurance? the supporters of reform say they don't compete a whole lot with each other. they let the prices get higher and higher and there are people like this who don't go anywhere and they don't fit in to insurance reform. so the goal of reformers, many of them, is to say let's have a government insur
repower america. i hope our senators are listening. >>> welcome back to the most news in the morning. 26 minutes past the hour now. in the make or break debate over health care reform, the white house is trying to clarify the position on a key piece of the plan after officials seemed to suggest the president could do without it. we're talking about the so-called public insurance optionment. so what does it mean and what would happen if it was taken off of the table. cnn's tom foreman...
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repower america. i hope our senators are listening. >>> welcome back to the most news in the morning. quarterback brett favre has unretired again, signing now with the nfl's minnesota vikings just a few weeks after saying he wouldn't join the team and had planned to stay retired. it was something about a rotator cuff tear he found he had and was worried he wouldn't be able to play, then found it was an old one and he was playing with it anyways. favre reported to the vikings training camp and is expected to start in the game friday against the kansas city chiefs. >> the love of the game keeps him coming back for more even if his body says now. >> he's going to be 40 years old in october. the vikings are willing to pay him $25 million over
repower america. i hope our senators are listening. >>> welcome back to the most news in the morning. quarterback brett favre has unretired again, signing now with the nfl's minnesota vikings just a few weeks after saying he wouldn't join the team and had planned to stay retired. it was something about a rotator cuff tear he found he had and was worried he wouldn't be able to play, then found it was an old one and he was playing with it anyways. favre reported to the vikings training...
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crime rates are falling in major cities across america. what exactly is going on in your estmation. >> i think it's a myth there's a correlation between bad economy and crime. all you have to do is look at the great depression. crime rates did not skyrocket. similarly here over the last year and a half we've monitored closely. the assumption is crime is down. a truckdriver one day loses his jobs and commits robberies the next day is simply not true. over the last year and a half over com stat crime meetings, we're looking at the same people, frequent flyers, guys with 15, 20 arrests. if the economy had a direct impact we'd be arresting people for the first time and that's simply not happening. >> commissioner ramsey, i want to get to you. you surnl had philadelphia police department but our viewers know you for heading the d.c. sniper investigation in 2002. i certainly remember that quite well. homicide is down in philadelphia 11%. that's astounding. what do you think is happening? what is your department doing differently? >> we're actual
crime rates are falling in major cities across america. what exactly is going on in your estmation. >> i think it's a myth there's a correlation between bad economy and crime. all you have to do is look at the great depression. crime rates did not skyrocket. similarly here over the last year and a half we've monitored closely. the assumption is crime is down. a truckdriver one day loses his jobs and commits robberies the next day is simply not true. over the last year and a half over com...
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we're america's health insurance companies. supporting bipartisan reform that congress can build on. >>> 46 1/2 minutes after the hour. and time to fast forward to stories making news later on today. at noon, the kennedy family gathers in hyannis port for a private mass, and then the final journey, a motorcade through boston to the kennedy library. cnn will bring you coverage of all of the public moments. >>> michael vick returns to the nfl tonight for the first time in three years, he's going to make his pre-season debut with the philadelphia eagles, before that a judge in virginia could rule on vick's new plan to pay back his creditors and emerge from bankruptcy. >>> and at 8:57 a.m. eastern, nasa will resume the countdown for the space shuttle discovery scheduled to lift off at 12:22 a.m. eastern time for friday morning. so far, the weather has not cooperated. our rob marciano tracking all of the extreme weather, from what's going on there in florida to a tropical storm about to make its way up the east coast. how is it look
we're america's health insurance companies. supporting bipartisan reform that congress can build on. >>> 46 1/2 minutes after the hour. and time to fast forward to stories making news later on today. at noon, the kennedy family gathers in hyannis port for a private mass, and then the final journey, a motorcade through boston to the kennedy library. cnn will bring you coverage of all of the public moments. >>> michael vick returns to the nfl tonight for the first time in three...
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lips, no tax hikes for middle class america. trying to set the record straight after his top economic advisor suggested that a tax increase couldn't be ruled out as a way of cutting the deficit and paying for health care reform. >>> you have the clunker, but will the government have the cash? the senate must act quickly and approve another $2 billion to save the popular cash-for-clunkers program. what happens to the old gas guzzler after you trade it in? a lot of people have been asking. we dispatched our jason carroll to look at that. >>> we begin with breaking news with a surprise visit to north korea by former president bill clinton. he arrived in pyeongyang before midnight. his mission is to secure the release of laura ling and euna lee. >> you remember back in june, the women were sentenced to 12 years' hard labor after they claimed they entered the country illegally to smear the government. can clinton get them out? how much of this deal is cooked before he went over there. jill is live at the white house. jill, when it co
lips, no tax hikes for middle class america. trying to set the record straight after his top economic advisor suggested that a tax increase couldn't be ruled out as a way of cutting the deficit and paying for health care reform. >>> you have the clunker, but will the government have the cash? the senate must act quickly and approve another $2 billion to save the popular cash-for-clunkers program. what happens to the old gas guzzler after you trade it in? a lot of people have been...